Pickeringia montana
- noun
- Specialized
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Pickeringia montana
- Hikers admired the striking rose and purple blooms of Pickeringia montana among the rocks.
Examples
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The steep hillside was covered with dense stands of Pickeringia montana.
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The Pickeringia montana thrives in rocky soils.
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Botanists studied the adaptation of Pickeringia montana to the region's dry climate.
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Have you seen a Pickeringia montana in bloom?
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Hikers admired the striking rose and purple blooms of Pickeringia montana among the rocks.
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Botanists studied the adaptation of Pickeringia montana to the region's dry climate.
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The steep hillside was covered with dense stands of Pickeringia montana.
Synonyms
A spiny bush with bright rose and purple flowers that forms dense thickets on dry, rocky California slopes
A spiny evergreen shrub with bright rose and purple flowers that forms dense thickets on dry rocky slopes
A flowering plant in the pea family native to California and Baja California
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a scientific binomial: knowing 'Pickeringia' as a plant genus tells a learner it's a plant, and 'montana' evokes 'mountain' (or the place-name Montana), so there is a partial clue to a mountain-associated plant. However, the precise sense (a specific spiny evergreen shrub native to California) and taxonomic naming conventions are specialized and not fully derivable from the parts, so the meaning is only partially predictable.
Etymology
Pickeringia montana may be named for a person called Pickering and the Latin word montana meaning 'of the mountain', which gives a simple picture of a mountain plant. That's why the name fits this spiny evergreen shrub with rose and purple flowers that grows on dry, rocky slopes.
